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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 8 December 1916 |
| Launched: | 11 November 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1918 |
| Fate: | sunk by a fruit ship |
| Stricken: | 28 April 1924 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 520.6 tons surfaced, 629 tons submerged |
| Length: | 172 feet 4 inches |
| Beam: | 18 feet |
| Draft: | 14 feet 5 inches |
| Speed: | 14 knots surfaced, 10.5 knots submerged |
| Complement: | 29 officers and men |
| Armament: | one three-inch/50-caliber gun, four 18-inch torpedo tubes |
During the final months of World War I, O-5 operated along the Atlantic coast and patrolled from Cape Cod to Key West, Florida. She departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 3 November with a 20-sub contingent bound for European waters; however, hostilities had ceased before the vessels reached the Azores.
After the Armistice, O-5 operated out of the Submarine School at New London, Connecticut, until 1923. O-5 then sailed to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, for a brief tour. On 28 October 1923, as O-5 entered Limon Bay, preparatory to transiting the Panama Canal, she was rammed by United Fruit steamer Abangarez and sank in less than a minute, with the loss of three men.
Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 April 1924, she was sold as a hulk to R.K. Morris, Balboa, Canal Zone, on 12 December 1924.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
